The first sound of trinkets, drums and temple bells, and conch shells can make you sit still for a while before Rahul Ram bursts into a virtual battle cry!
Aarambh hai prachand bole mastakon ke jhund
Aaj jung ki ghadi ki tum guhaar do
Aan baan shaan ya ke jaan ka ho daan
Aaj ek dhanush ke baan pe utaar do…
And what intensity he carries throughout the song! Every word is pronounced with prominence and may be even a vengeance! Not a typical song, it sounds like a mantra that with the most exquisite hindi poetry found rarely in bollywood music. Tracing its roots to the Bhagavad-Gita and glorifying bravery, irrespective of Good or Evil, Mishra calls out to one and all to rise and fight. Supported by Backing music and chorus the song gradually rises to a crescendo and all of a sudden falls to a dead silence…a soft whistle changes the mood only to be shattered once again by lines written with a pen which for all we can make out is certainly sharper than the sharpest sword, Mishra writes –
Jis kavi ki kalpana mein zindagi ho prem geet
Us kavi ko aaj tum nakaar do
Bheegti maso mein aaj phoolti ragon mein aaj
Aag ki lapat ka tum bhaghaar do
Indeed, life is not just a beautiful romantic verse…it is all about the eternal struggle for survival and the challenge of looking at the enemy as well as the new day, straight into the eye…It reminded me of the poems or songs we used to almost internalize during our days of soaking into the ideologies of social activism…one particular being a rather rustic poetry by one poet, Gorakh Pandey, that reads –
Janta ki chale paltaniya hille le jhakjhor duniya…
Hille le jhakjhor...duniya...
Song: Araambh
Soundtrack: Gulaal
Director: Anuraag Kashyap
Composer and Lyricist: Piyush Mishra
Singer: Rahul Raam
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